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    The "seventy-four" was a type of two-decked sailing ship of the line, which nominally carried 74 guns. It was developed by the French navy in the 1740s...
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  • 2074 The 74, an American nonprofit news website Seventy-four (ship), a type of two-decked sailing ship 74 Galatea, a main-belt asteroid List of highways...
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  • ship Natividad in battle. As a reward for his exploits, he is given command of a seventy-four ship of the line, HMS Sutherland, once the Dutch ship Eendracht...
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  • many of the sailing "Seventy-four ships". Doughty worked for many years as a United States naval architect laying down such ships "as the USS Delaware...
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    Third-rate (redirect from Sixty-four (ship))
    seventy-four gun ship, which eventually came to be the most popular size of large ship for navies of several different nations. It was an easier ship...
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    known as a ship of the line, featuring seventy-four guns. This type of ship became the backbone of all European fighting fleets. These ships were 56 metres...
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    any late additions of a second gundeck. The king ordered seventy-two 24-pound guns for the ship on 5 August 1626, and this was too many to fit on a single...
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    suppress piracy. During their deployment seventy six of the Macedonian officers and men died. Seventy four of these deaths were attributed to yellow...
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    Two-decker (category Naval sailing ship types)
    Fifth rate up to 80- or even 90-gun ships of the line, with the third-rate of seventy-four guns, or "seventy-four", being the archetype. Three-decker...
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    Rivoli was a Téméraire-class ship of the line of the French Navy. Rivoli was built in the Arsenal of Venice, whose harbour was too shallow for a 74-gun...
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    Maryland, United States, collapsed after the container ship Dali struck one of its piers. Four members of a maintenance crew working on the roadway were...
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    A junk (Chinese: 船; pinyin: chuán) is a type of Chinese sailing ship with fully battened sails. Similar junk sails were also adopted by other East Asian...
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    "first rate" when referring to the largest ships of other nations or "third rate" to speak of a French seventy-four. By the end of the 18th century, the rating...
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    Ship breaking (also known as ship recycling, ship demolition, ship dismantling, or ship cracking) is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up...
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  • Commodore Aubrey is given a squadron to conduct a mission against slave ships in West Africa and then he and Maturin are sent against Napoleon's Navy...
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    Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (category Naval ships of the United States)
    October 2023,[update] all seventy-three built are active, with nineteen more planned to enter service. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer has four variants, referred...
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    USS Columbus (1819) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    not less than seventy-four guns each". Enslaved laborer and diarist, Michael Shiner, documented the launching thus, "The United States Ship Columbus 74...
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  • Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost At Sea is a 1986 memoir by Steven Callahan about his survival alone in a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean, which lasted 76...
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  • pattern but deals with a fast and seaworthy ship traveling the Clipper route and taking "never more than seventy days" "[f]rom Limehouse Docks to Sydney Heads"[1]...
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    cause to be built nine ships, to rate not less than seventy-four guns each, and twelve ships, to rate not less than forty-four guns each… the president...
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    SS Oceanic (1870) (category Ships built in Belfast)
    chartered to Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company (O&O) in 1875. The ship provided passenger service for O&O in the Pacific until 1895 when she was...
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  • published in 1996. The story is set in the era of the Napoleonic Wars. The ships of his squadron are dispersed by the Admiralty as Aubrey's two missions...
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  • of the forward part of the ship. Arizona sank into the shallow water of the harbor, taking one thousand one hundred seventy-seven of her crew with her...
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    USS Massachusetts (BB-59) (category 1941 ships)
    and up to 44,519 long tons (45,233 t) at full combat load. The ship was powered by four General Electric steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft...
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    rational interior planning. The ship was armed with seventy-four 24- and 36-pound cannons. On August 8, 1842, the ship left Arkhangelsk on her maiden voyage...
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    the he-goat (8:1–27 – Babylonian era; Hebrew) 9: Interpretation of the seventy weeks' prophecy (9:1–27 – Median era; Hebrew) 10: The angel's revelation:...
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  • the UK Top 100 Albums Charts. In the United States, it debuted at number seventy-eight on the US Billboard 200 charts, spending a total of three weeks within...
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    locally as Esikanisweni Lager. Fort Ahrens was erected in the sixties or seventies of the nineteenth century, not for military purposes, but as a refuge...
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    vessel was constructed shorter in length than a traditional Spanish seventy-four would be. Although completed with 74 guns, she was later re-armed in...
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    liferaft. Callahan recounted his ordeal in the best-selling book Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea (1986), which was on The New York Times best-seller...
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